Prison education works: a review of the evidence
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
1M ago
A new review for Clinks, the infrastructure body for the voluntary sector in the justice sector, sets out the evidence on the impact of prison education. Its author, PET Chief Executive Jon Collins, gives an overview. One of the best bits of working at PET is hearing directly from current and former learners about the difference that their participation in education in prison has made. We speak to people who are doing our courses on our Advice Line, capture their views on our evaluation forms, and receive back hundreds of the postcards that we distribute to learners. Each one tells a story – i ..read more
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Big Give appeal raises over £46,000
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
Cassie Edmiston, PET’s Head of Fundraising and External Affairs, takes a look back at the impact you’ve helped us make for people in prison this year. Thank you so much to everyone who supported our Big Give Christmas Challenge. We were able to raise a record total of £46,121 including Gift Aid. This will make a significant difference to the number of people we can help in 2024. You are, as the decoration on my tree at home says, amazebaubles! During a challenging year, I’ve been moved by the support you’ve given us – whether following us on social media, joining us at events or making a donat ..read more
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PET launches new Course Prospectus for 2022-23
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
We are pleased to share with you the Prisoners’ Education Trust Course Prospectus 2022–2023! Based on feedback from learners and prison and education staff, we’ve refreshed our prospectus and now offer over 125 courses, including nine new additions.   The new prospectus includes: Information on all our short courses, GCSEs and A-levels, Open University Access modules and professional courses Help choosing the right course and level A step-by-step guide to making a course application An outline of the support available from PET, prisons and course providers If you’re viewing the pr ..read more
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“Blank inactivity”: annual report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons paints a grim picture
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
This month the prisons inspectorate released their annual report, covering the year from April 2021 to March 2022. It paints a grim picture – of prisons struggling to manage, and failing to provide much needed education and activities during lockdown and beyond. Starting the report with a quote from the annual report of 1982 forty years ago, the Chief Inspector Charlie Taylor makes the point that little has changed. Indeed, in many of the prisons that inspectors visited people were being locked up for even longer than they were in 1982. Over the year, some prisoners were in their cells for 23 ..read more
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Thanks for your support this year
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
As Christmas approaches, it’s a time of reflection. It’s been another difficult twelve months, but inspired by learners like Poppy I’m looking forward to 2022 with hope. With the challenges we’ve all had to face, the work achieved by my PET colleagues and by the learners we’ve supported is quite incredible. And as always it is all thanks to our supporters’ help. It’s been wonderful this year to hear and share the stories of PET alumni – Jonathan, Dominic, Garry and Dalton – and to find out how education gave them a way forward. We even collaborated with another alumna, artist Erika F ..read more
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Prisons after lockdown: creating a positive environment for studying
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
In the last of three blogs on how prisons are recovering from the pandemic and what this means for prison learners, PET’s Head of Policy Francesca Cooney reflects on the changes to in-cell study and the support that learners need to succeed. During the lockdown introduced in prisons to limit the spread of Covid, education was provided through learning packs – printed out materials completed in-cell. As plans for recovery develop, it is clear that the prison service expects independent study to continue to be a big part of education delivery. Prisoners’ Education Trust supports enabling learner ..read more
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Prisons after lockdown: changing the core day
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
In the second of three blogs about how prisons are recovering from the pandemic, Head of Policy Francesca Cooney talks about education and the changes PET would like to see to the core day in prisons. Over the last few years, the core day in prison has become shorter and shorter. Even before the lockdown introduced in prisons in response to the pandemic, many prisons were letting people out of their cells from 8.30am and locking them up at 5pm, sometimes earlier. And many prisons were not even able to facilitate their core day due to lack of staff. The 2019–20 annual report from the prison ins ..read more
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Prisons after lockdown: restrictions, regimes and recovery
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
In the first of three blogs about how prisons are recovering from the pandemic and what this means for prison learners, PET’s Head of Policy Francesca Cooney argues that we need to recruit more prison officers to successfully support education delivery. Today, 19 July 2021, lockdown restrictions are being lifted for people living in England. For many, life will be almost ‘back to normal’, as offices and businesses reopen, schools, colleges and universities make plans for September, and leisure activities are allowed. But for people living and working in prison, life is nowhere near normal. Pri ..read more
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PET launches new Course Prospectus for 2021-22
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
We’re delighted to share with you the new Prisoners’ Education Trust Course Prospectus 2021-2022! Based on feedback from learners, prison and education staff, and the expert advice team here at PET, we’ve improved and refreshed our prospectus and now offer over 120 courses to people in prison. The new prospectus includes:  Information on all our short courses, GCSEs and A-levels, Open University Access modules and professional courses An interactive contents page and course index Help choosing the right course and level A step-by-step guide to making a course application ..read more
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Children’s education in prison: “Woefully lacking and poorly delivered”
Prisoners' Education Trust Blog
by Calum Walker
3M ago
Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England are taking too long to recover from the pandemic, according to the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) Annual Report. IMBs are an important part of the independent oversight of prisons. The report outlines several issues with the provision of education to children in prison. For instance, while education for children under 18 is a statutory requirement, the report found that provision in YOIs was “unsatisfactory and under-resourced, with last-minute cancellations of sessions”. Not only does this undermine young people’s learning, but it also disru ..read more
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